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1) Feathers
Author
Language
English
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Description
When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
3) Visiting day
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her grandmother visit the girl's father in prison
4) Show way
Author
Language
English
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Description
The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter
5) Remember us
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"The summer before seventh grade, as the constant threat of housefires looms over her Brooklyn neighborhood, basketball-loving Sage is trying to figure out her place in her circle of friends, when a new kid named Freddy moves in"--
6) Harbor me
Author
Language
English
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Be Kind: Books for School-Age Kids
Social Justice for Kids
Summer Reading Challenge: Read a Book with a Yellow Cover
Social Justice for Kids
Summer Reading Challenge: Read a Book with a Yellow Cover
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Description
"When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world"--
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.
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